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Libertarians preach the morality of the market, and socialists preach the morality of the state. Those convinced of the market’s morality want de-regulation; those convinced of the state’s morality want regulation.
On what planet?
Why make things harder than they really can be perceived? I am going to link and quote someone who defined ‘socialism’ in 1850 or so and there was no mention of morality of The State. Please note that someone is reaping the rewards earned when divisions are created out of falsehood.
http://www.anarchism.net/scienceofsociety.htm
What, then, if this be so, is this common element? In what great feature are Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism identical? I will answer this interrogatory first, and demonstrate the answer afterward. Protestantism, Democracy, and Socialism are identical in the assertion of the Supremacy of the Individual,--a dogma essentially contumacious, revolutionary, and antagonistic to the basic principles of all the older institutions of society, which make the Individual subordinate and subject to the Church, to the State, and to Society respectively. Not only is this supremacy or SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL, a common element of all three of these great modern movements, but I will make the still more sweeping assertion that it is substantially the whole of those movements. It is not merely a feature, as I have just denominated it, but the living soul itself, the vital energy, the integral essence or being of them all.
Name calling is a function of pre-judgment, so…, why do it? Why, for example, does someone blame ‘socialists’ for this moral justification of The State?
My answer is this:
“every individual will attempt to secure his own requirements as completely as possible to the exclusion of others.” Carl Menger (1840 -1921)
The 'socialists' are the bad guys according to the 'capitalists', or so the story goes, meanwhile the crimnals laugh all the way to the bank.